I went to my passion and my curse today, 1/2 Price books. Bought two blank diaries, some house plans books, and a whole bunch of sci fi paper backs on a $1 per sale.
I'm now proceeding to read one of them in a high scan mode, where I see every word, my mind isn't distracted, but if you ask me a minute later what I just read, I can't tell you. Ask me in ten minutes, an hour, and I can. Apparently, it takes time for the mind to process what it saw into usable memory.
I imagine I can get 4 chapters through half way through the paper back doing that before I have to stop for the day. As a prof one time said about the disadvantage of cramming, there are limits, the mind only has so much ATP in it.
I have an even higher speed scan where I see the words a page at a time......and the lag from seeing to memory is a month or more.
But I'm wondering if on a Kindle, a person could read as fast or could there be something there that interferes with the scan, such as maybe the refresh rate of the screen.
I don't know but as that it seems our electronic devices are making people dumber, I have to wonder if this device, too, has some devious design behind it.
I'm now proceeding to read one of them in a high scan mode, where I see every word, my mind isn't distracted, but if you ask me a minute later what I just read, I can't tell you. Ask me in ten minutes, an hour, and I can. Apparently, it takes time for the mind to process what it saw into usable memory.
I imagine I can get 4 chapters through half way through the paper back doing that before I have to stop for the day. As a prof one time said about the disadvantage of cramming, there are limits, the mind only has so much ATP in it.
I have an even higher speed scan where I see the words a page at a time......and the lag from seeing to memory is a month or more.
But I'm wondering if on a Kindle, a person could read as fast or could there be something there that interferes with the scan, such as maybe the refresh rate of the screen.
I don't know but as that it seems our electronic devices are making people dumber, I have to wonder if this device, too, has some devious design behind it.
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